Continuing with our stretches, today David is demonstrating the upper trapezius stretch.

Please ensure you use a chair that you can support your resting arm underneath, as that will allow the correct traction to bring that shoulder down so you can get a proper stretch. The other arm will bring head (ear) down towards shoulder, keep bringing the head down until you can start feeling a stretch.

Please remember to hold each stretch for 15 seconds and do 3 sets at a time.

Here is David demonstrating the pectoral stretch using the door frame. Incredibly effective stretch to again assist the posture and reduce the effect of rounded shoulders. Make sure when your elbows are against the door frame, ear must be in line with shoulders and step into the door frame, as if to do a lunge.

Give it a try and remember for any stretch to be effective hold it for 15 seconds. If your hands are higher up on door frame you will be stretching the lower pectoral muscles and if the hands are lower you will be stretching the upper fibers of the pectoral muscles.

Thinking about all our patients who have recently started activating their core and implementing the correct posture techniques and are bound to be a b bit stiff, we have a couple of appropriate stretches for you.

This stretch is imperative to release muscle tension along with avoiding muscle ache and fatigue. The muscles which David is demonstrating how to stretch are predominately the latissimus dorsi and the rhomboids (major and minor)

Remember that stretching assists muscle strength and tone- so it is just as important as training and activating your muscles.